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No learning in books, no skill acquired in courts, no sharpness of forensic dialectics, no cunning in splitting hairs can impair the vigor of the constitutional principle which I announce.
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Sumner argues that no legal expertise can undermine the constitutional principle he is advocating for human rights.
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